by Roger Stone
Brunel’s MC2 was founded in 2005. Modeling agency or pedophilia recruiting pipeline? You pick the description of Brunel’s organization. “Jeff put his money up for this guy to get Jeffrey these young girls. That’s a front for Jeffrey’s securing more and more young girls,” a longtime Epstein friend told the Daily Beast.158
This much is certain: Brunel was one of Epstein’s closest friends, and both men have a very long history of ties to sex with underage girls. Brunel visited Epstein in jail sixty-seven times, according to jail logs.159 Incredibly, Epstein only had to report to the Palm Beach jail at ten in the evening and stay till six in the morning. He was unsupervised at all hours and was allowed to travel and visit his home or office, as long as he made his ten o’clock curfew. One Palm Beach County corrections officer told Roger Stone that servants would often bring Epstein a gourmet dinner and fine wine, as “Mr. Epstein liked to dine late.”160
Here is what Roberts had to say about Jean Luc Brunel in a court filing in January of 2015 in paragraphs 47 to 51:
47. I also had sexual intercourse with Jean Luc Brunel many times when I was 16 through 19 years old. He was another of Epstein’s powerful friends who had many contacts with young girls throughout the world. In fact, his only similarity with Epstein and the only link to their friendship appeared to be that Brunel could get dozens of underaged girls and feed Epstein’s (and Maxwell’s) strong appetite for sex with minors.
48. Brunel ran some kind of modeling agency and appeared to have an arrangement with the U.S. Government where he could get passports or other travel documents for young girls. He would then bring these young girls (girls ranging in age from 12 to 24) to the United States for sexual purposes and farm them out to his friends, including Epstein.
49. Brunel would offer the girls “modeling” jobs. A lot of the girls came from poor countries or poor backgrounds, and he lured them in with a promise of making good money.
50. I had to have sex with Brunel at Little St. James (orgies), Palm Beach, New York City, New Mexico, Paris, the south of France, and California. He did not care about conversation, just sex.
51. Jeffrey Epstein has told me that he has slept with over 1,000 of Brunel’s girls, and everything that I have seen confirms this claim. Epstein, Brunel, and Maxwell loved orgies with kids - that is, having sexual interactions with many young teenagers at the same time. Sometimes as many as ten underaged girls would participate in a single orgy with them. I personally observed dozens of these orgies. The orgies happened on Epstein’s island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, in New Mexico, Palm Beach, and many other places. Most of the girls did not speak English. It is my understanding that the girls had been persuaded to come by Brunel offering them illegal drugs or a career in modeling. Brunel was one of the main procurers of girls.161
With their reputations being linked to orgies, drugs, and partying with young girls, Bill Clinton was a natural friend for Epstein and Maxwell. One could say they were on the same wavelength. Epstein even “bought” a fourteen-year-old girl from Eastern Europe, Nadia Marcinkova, who Epstein apparently said that he “had purchased her from her family in Yugoslavia. Epstein bragged he brought her into the United States to be his Yugoslavian sex slave.”162 Marcinkova later became a key facilitator and participant with Epstein when he had sex with other “too young” teenaged girls. She was skilled with Epstein’s sex toys.
We find it enraging that Epstein, a close friend of Bill Clinton, got a mere wrist slap rather than many years in jail. Epstein’s legal troubles belatedly began in March 2005, when a fourteen-year-old girl told her parents that she had been sexually molested by the Wall Street billionaire. Palm Beach police carefully investigated Epstein for a year and built a detailed probable cause affidavit against him that included five molestation victims of Epstein and two others they suspected. Search online for “2006 Jeffrey Epstein Probable Cause Affidavit” and you’ll find this disturbing and meticulously detailed document.163 The FBI later came in and identified over thirty underaged sex victims of Epstein.
The Palm Beach police handed off their meticulously documented and airtight case to Palm Beach State Attorney Barry Krischer. At this point, we feel, the corruption in the Epstein case began. The fix was in.
Instead of a quick indictment of Epstein, followed by pressuring him with the hopes of getting him to plea bargain and give up the other co-conspirators in his massive sex-trafficking ring, Krischer made the unusual decision to call a grand jury to review the case. Barry Krischer led a grand jury by the nose to indict Epstein on just one single charge: solicitation of prostitution, the sex crime equivalent of jaywalking.
In Florida, grand juries are generally restricted to capital cases. Krischer presented evidence to that grand jury in 2006 and what came back was mind-boggling: a paltry one-count indictment of Epstein for solicitation of a prostitute. Nothing in the indictment pertained to sexually molesting a fourteen-year-old girl, nor was there anything about running a massive underage sex trafficking ring for VIP pedophiles. Those adults who supplied Epstein with children for the rich and powerful to molest have gone unpunished, as have the VIP pedophiles themselves. A neutral observer might conclude that Krischer had been corrupted by the pedophiles and had intentionally tanked the case behind the secrecy of a grand jury, or that Krishcher was one of the most incompetent state attorneys ever to serve in Florida.
Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter had identified around five children used for the pleasure of Epstein and his friends and at least several who were procuring them. An intimidation campaign was waged by Epstein and his lawyers against Reiter, a good and honest man. He was being followed by strange men and “investigated” by the dark forces. Both Reiter and his top detective were being followed.
The New York Times in September 2006 covered the outraged reaction of Reiter: “Even before the indictment, the Palm Beach police chief, Michael Reiter, had accused prosecutors of giving Mr. Epstein special treatment and asked the state attorney, Barry E. Krischer, to remove himself from the case. In an editorial, the Palm Beach Post attacked Mr. Krischer, a Democrat whose post is elective, saying the public had been left ‘to wonder whether the system tilted in favor of a wealthy, well-connected alleged perpetrator and against very young girls who are alleged victims of sex crimes.’”164
Krischer ultimately made an absurd plea bargain deal with Epstein that allowed this mega-pedophile and child sex trafficker to serve a mere thirteen months in prison and with a sixteen-hour-a-day pass to roam freely. Epstein could travel daily to his office and even took trips to New York. To say Epstein was “incarcerated” is to abuse the word. Recall that the lead lawyer negotiating this mind-blowing deal, which included immunity from prosecution for himself and others, was Dershowitz, with whom Roberts says she was forced to have sex with multiple times.
Public outrage then prompted the federal government to step in. Most believed that respected lawman Reiter had tipped off the feds to the fact that the state attorney’s fix was in. Federal prosecutors were also being intimidated and investigated. The Epstein lawyers threatened the federal prosecutors that a nasty book could be written about them if they did not toe the line.
R. Alexander Acosta, the U.S. attorney who handled the Epstein case on the federal end, wrote a 2011 letter in which he described the pressure that was brought to bear on the U.S. attorneys who were prosecuting Epstein. Acosta says that after the U.S. attorneys met with the high-power Epstein legal defense team in early summer 2007, “What followed was a year-long assault on the prosecution and prosecutors. I use the word assault intentionally, as the defense in this case was more aggressive than any which I, or the prosecutors in my office, had previously encountered.”165
Attorney Acosta complained that many of their negotiations with Epstein’s lawyers were appealed to Washington, DC, over the heads of the federal Miami prosecutors. According to Acosta, Epstein’s team was personally going after the prosecutors: “Defense counsel investigated individual prosecutors and their
families, looking for personal peccadilloes that may provide a basis for disqualification. Disqualifying a prosecutor is an effective (though rarely used) strategy…. Defense counsel tried to disqualify at least two prosecutors. I carefully reviewed, and then rejected, these arguments.”166
Acosta continued, “The defense, arguably, often failed to negotiate in good faith. They would obtain concessions as part of a negotiation and agree to proceed, only to change their minds, and appeal the office’s position to Washington. The investigations into the family lives of individual prosecutors were, in my opinion, uncalled for, as were the accusations of bias and/or misconduct against individual prosecutors.”167
Acosta’s boss, then Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, told the Daily Beast that he “would have instructed the Justice Department to pursue justice without making a political mess.”168 Gonzales’s comments tell you all you need to know about the Epstein pedophile scandal because the only way to properly mete out justice in the Epstein case was to have a very big political mess as a side product of thorough, piercing investigations and prosecutions. It would not take long for “big names,” also known as VIPs or “A-listers,” to be enmeshed in any honest and complete investigation of Epstein and whom he was pandering underaged girls to.
The whole point of the sweetheart deal for Epstein (no prison time) was to avoid all that. It was to protect Epstein; and more importantly it was designed to protect scores of the elite VIP pedophiles who partook of Epstein’s “Turkish Delight” (sin).
Remember, Wexner, who at one time was Epstein’s “best friend forever” is a longtime billionaire Republican donor who is tight with the Bushes. Perhaps that fact clarifies why Gonzales did not want his federal prosecutors to generate a “political mess.” Or perhaps it was Bill Clinton’s personal friendship with the Bushes that poisoned justice in the Epstein case. Epstein gave the Clinton Foundation $25,000 after his legal troubles began in 2006. “He was manipulating currencies for the CIA,” said Hoffenberg, former owner of the New York Post and collections business genius, who flamed out in a multi-million dollar Ponzi scam in the '80s. “His pal Larry Summers hooked him up,” Hoffenberg said of the then secretary of the treasury. “He destabilizes Middle Eastern currencies to help Israel. He’s protected,” he told us. It is a plausible explanation as to why a Republican administration is dishing leniency to a Democratic super donor and friend of Bill. But then again, the Clinton-Bush alliance is demonstrated again and again in the true narrative of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Israel (former prime minister Ehud Barak) and Great Britain (Prince Andrew) were two of the Bush Administration’s key foreign policy allies. Prosecute those two men and you have an international political mess.
The Feds then secretly rubber-stamped the lenient deal, added immunity for Epstein’s pedophile co-conspirators, and then sealed their outrageously lenient plea-bargain. Epstein’s thirty-five victims were never informed of the secret Department of Justice (DOJ) deal as required by law, which is the basis for a lawsuit by the sex victims against the federal government to overturn the secretive and outrageously lenient plea bargain given to Epstein in September of 2007.
The Palm Beach Post, to its credit, went to court to get this wrist-slap deal unsealed. Only after two years of litigation did the public learn of the toxic terms of the secret deal. Why George W. Bush’s DOJ gave Epstein a pass after a flawed state investigation seems to be a mystery.
Well, perhaps it is not a mystery when one learns of the names and social statuses of the people who were involved with Epstein. Thanks to Epstein’s butler and house manager Alfredo Rodriguez—who swiped that infamous little black book—we have a very good idea of who might have been involved with pedophilic activities with Epstein. It’s always the butler.
When prosecutors found out that Rodriguez was trying to sell a copy of Epstein’s book of contacts they charged him with stealing evidence and threw him in jail, and his jail sentence ended up being longer than Epstein’s! Rodriguez died of cancer in late 2014. Nevertheless, he left us with a pretty good idea who some of Epstein’s VIP pedophile friends were.
It should be stressed that Rodriguez was only the manager at Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion. He did not know what was going on with Epstein in New York, on his New Mexico spread, the Virgin Islands, in Paris, or on Epstein’s airplane, which was known for its orgies. Therefore, Rodriguez’s circled names are only a fraction of the VIP friends of Epstein who may have been pandered underaged girls to molest.
Rodriguez also said Maxwell covertly took photos of the girls without their permission or knowledge and “kept the images on her computer, knew the names of the underaged girls and their respective phone numbers and other underaged victims.”169 These are the images that Maxwell would arrange on an opulent Italian marble table at Epstein’s minimalist and darkly cool island retreat. One person in Epstein’s phone book who visited the erudite billionaire on his island Shangri-La said the display of photos was “almost like a trophy case” that visitors could use as a menu for a future tryst.
Epstein has unloaded his Palm Beach mansion as the judicial process and the media have caught up with him. The lawsuit by Roberts and others have unearthed the lurid and brutal details that the well-connected Epstein thought had been resolved in his “arranged” guilty plea and the turnkey “incarceration” he served.
Roger Stone interviewed an Epstein neighbor who confirmed that former president Bill Clinton visited Epstein’s Palm Beach compound for a party that lasted until 3 a.m. “First the presidential motorcade pulled up just as the sun was going down. There was an SUV in front, followed by a black sedan, which was trailed by a second SUV. In the backseats of the SUVs you could see men and rifle barrels as the windows were rolled down,” she said.
“Two agents went into the house, presumably to sweep it as the sedan idled. Bill Clinton got out, briefly shook hands with a Cuban gardener who worked for Epstein, and entered the house,” the neighbor said. “Shortly thereafter there was a virtual traffic jam of cars dropping off girls.”
“I saw no couples or men, but as many as 30 very young looking girls were dropped off,” this disgusted neighbor told me. “In Florida, license plates must have the county name on them. It was clear that some of these girls had come from Miami as well as Palm Beach. You could hear music and laughing until midnight, when everything got quiet, but Clinton didn’t exit until 3 am and despite the fact that it was still dark, was wearing sunglasses.”
It is notable that in the few instances courts have weighed in somehow on Epstein’s case the result has been consistent with treatment of Epstein as the dangerous pedophile he is, rather than as some breezy good-guy philanthropist gone slightly astray.
After Epstein flew Clinton to meet the sultan in his “adult-themed private jet,” the sultan has been a big donor of the Clinton Presidential Library. The government of Brunei contributed in 2002 between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, which said that the donation went toward the construction of the Clinton Presidential Library in Arkansas.
Clinton was picked up at a Japanese naval base by Epstein in his private Boeing 727—known to many as either the “orgy jet” or “Lolita Express”—and flown to Brunei to visit with Sultan Bolkiah, according to flight records.
Epstein is a registered sex offender who would regularly host Clinton and many others at his private Caribbean island before getting a slap on the wrist for abusing girls internationally. “This is not just a Clinton sex scandal,” said political pundit and author Ann Coulter. “This is the elites getting cozy and covering up and protecting one another.”170
The Sultan and his brother Jefri were infamous for their sex parties and their harems composed mainly of underaged girls. In 1997, the Sultan was sued by a former Miss USA, who said she was held, drugged, and molested by both the Sultan and his brother.
Jillian Lauren, who at eighteen years of age was recruited by Jefri for his harem, said, “there’s no such thing as unde
rage among the privileged class in Brunei.” Lauren was tasked with servicing the Sultan and his brother.
The Sultan has bigger problems, though.
He has been aggressive in instituting Sharia Law. Homosexuality, sodomy, adultery, and the discussion of faith by non-Muslims are now punishable by amputation of limbs, public flogging, or death by stoning. Hollywood stars have boycotted the iconic Pink Beverly Hills Hotel owned by the Sultan after Brunei adopted the anti-gay and anti-women Islamic law. The City of Beverly Hills even adopted a resolution urging the Sultan to sell his interest in the hotel.
The hotel business suffered as Jeffrey Katzenberg, Carl Reiner, David Geffen, and others called for the boycott. NBC correspondent Josh Mankiewicz, always nattily dressed, was a regular in the hotel’s Polo Lounge, where he imbibed a dry martini several times a week. When Mankiewicz honored the boycott, you could tell it was over for the Sultan in Tinsletown. Ironic that sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein would fly his best buddy Bill to a tete-a-tete with another epic pedophile to pick up a check.
In December 2014, the Epstein case returned to the forefront after two more women came forward to join a Florida Jane Doe lawsuit, filed in 2008, seeking Epstein’s federal prosecution for child sex trafficking. In seeking to join the two original plaintiffs, Jane Doe #3, the now-married and thirty-one-year-old mother Roberts, attempted to join a victims’ lawsuit against the government for not properly informing them of the extremely lenient plea bargain terms and Non-Prosecution Agreement with Epstein and the other co-conspirators.
In April 2014, Florida Judge Kenneth Marra denied an attempt by Roberts, a.k.a. Jane Doe #3, to join a lawsuit against the federal government “for allegedly not protecting their rights in a plea deal [with] Epstein.171
The original victims’ rights case is still grinding away in the courts, and Roberts is planning to write a book about her experiences as a child sex victim in the world of Epstein, who told Virginia that he had molested one thousand girls and as of 2015 had settled lawsuits with thirty-three victims’ families.